Re: Importing (and dealing with) multiple files
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg60789] Re: Importing (and dealing with) multiple files
- From: albert <awnl at arcor.de>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:40:56 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <dhdbdh$8f3$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
hi,
> I tried using FileNames[] to
> get the list of files, assigning them to an array, then using Import[]
> on each of those array elements. It didn't work.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
My suggestion would be to do exactly what you said did not work for you.
This should give you a list containing all data:
SetDirectory["your/data/directory"];
alldata = Map[ImportFileNames["*.ASC"]]
If the datafiles are large, it might be better to extract the relevant data
instead of store their contents in a list:
SetDirectory["your/data/directory"];
resulttable = Map[
Function[{filename},yourextractionfunction[Import[filename]]],
FileNames["*.ASC"]
]
If that doesn't work, you should give details about what goes wrong and I'm
sure you will get help to get this running...
cheers,
albert